Flying columnist – Frank McNally on a lightning visit to Leeside
He studied me a second, as if trying to assess if I was a Dublin jackeen out to make a feck of him
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Rose of Tralee 2025: Sparks fly as electrician Katelyn Cummins crowned the winner
Laois Rose, from Ballyouskill, named this year’s Rose of Tralee following televised event over two nights on RTÉ
Rose of Tralee 2025 review: Another batch of warm, likeable overachievers makes for slightly plodding TV
Hosts Dáithí Ó Sé and Kathryn Thomas have negligible chemistry
TV guide: the best new shows to watch, starting tonight
August 17th-22nd highlights: including Rose of Tralee 2025, Ozzy Osbourne: Coming Home, and Hostage
‘I had cancer but was sent home with paracetamol’: The 2025 Roses on their health histories
Ten-day Rose of Tralee festival showcases 32 Irish and overseas women competing for Kerry title
TV guide: the best new shows to watch, starting tonight
March 15-21: including the new series of Gangs of London, DWTS 2025 final and the St Patrick’s Festival Parade
Carl, Roz & Aisling’s on-air vibes trump cookie-cutter formulas on 2FM’s new breakfast show
Radio: The new presenters get off to the good start the station needs after the calamity of its biggest stars leaving in a single week
Dáithi Ó Sé: ‘I keep change in my car for the tolls and it can go missing. My young fella is my main man and suspect’
Me & My Money: Dáithi Ó Sé is a television presenter
New Zealand’s Keely O’Grady wins Rose of Tralee 2024: ‘I can’t really put it into words. I’m shaking so much’
Television: ‘What I’m most looking forward to is doing this for my country as an International Rose. We’ve only had two New Zealand Roses. It means a lot to me’
Patrick Freyne: I ooh as one Rose plays the spoons, aah as another risks ripping a hole in the space-time continuum
The second night of the Rose of Tralee International Festival is always when my cynicism retreats and I drink the red lemonade
The Rose of Tralee 2024 first night review: Card tricks, harp-playing and The Proclaimers parped out on the bagpipes
Television: It’s the 63rd year of the contest that Father Ted paradied as the Lovely Girls Competition, and there’s no sign of it running out of steam
Rose of Tralee: what time does it start, who will win and everything you need to know
Television: Contest has survived huge changes in society and remains popular – if controversial – part of national calendar
TV guide: 12 of the best new shows to watch, beginning tonight
March 17th-22nd: From St Patrick’s Day frolics to the rich people’s playground of Palm Royale
TV guide: 12 of the best new shows to watch
Highlights include Dancing with the Stars and a new series of Room to Improve with Dermot Bannon
Fighting baldness: ‘We’ve stopped repairing transplants from Turkey. They’re so badly mutilated’
The young men faced with receding identities, one hair at a time
Today lies between Prime Time and Teletubbies, with Dáithí a blend of David McCullagh and a baby-faced sun
Patrick Freyne: Dáithí Ó Sé and Sinead Kennedy are back on air to tell us everything is fine. Doctors could prescribe this to overstimulated teens or pets
Maura Derrane: ‘Sexually explicit comments were acceptable years ago. A kind of public shaming. I learned to be tough’
The daytime TV presenter has been a rotating stand-in host on the Nine O’Clock Show - her first time broadcasting on radio
Rose of Tralee 2023: Brianna Parkins on the real winner of this year’s competition
Television: Only the strongest can survive the contest’s format of doing a tell-us-about-yourself exercise in Spanx and a ball gown on live television
Gay Byrne’s perfect family summer: ‘We have such fond memories of going out in the boat with Dad’
Crona Byrne, Dáithí Ó Sé and others on finding a home from home to pass through the generations
95 things to look forward to: Matches, movies, plays, pints, pals
By Aisling Bea, Mary McAleese, Richard Ford, Marian Keyes, Tolü Makay, Blindboy and more
‘We totally gatecrashed Dolores O’Riordan’s wedding. I loved her punk style’
Soundtrack of My Life: Sinead Kennedy on her 1980s obsession and missing gigs in lockdown
Dáithí Ó Sé: ‘A baby comes along and you realise what life is really about’
Fatherhood a defining moment for Ó Sé, who spends as much time as he can with his son
Limerick entrant Sinead Flanagan wins 2019 Rose of Tralee
27-year-old junior doctor succeeds Waterford Rose Kirsten Mate Maher
Rose of Tralee: Daithí Ó Sé is as sturdy as an oak as host, and as quick as one on his feet
TV review: On day two of the festival the host seemed to be closest to wilting. That was before he got his kinky boots on
Rose of Tralee: Dáithí Ó Sé looked like a man briefly encased in a giant condom
TV review: It’s the 60th anniversary of the pageant, but it seems older, eternal even. At least watching the first show felt that way
Rose of Tralee kicks off again: ‘Why not have it? Girls love to dress up’
Festival’s 60th edition competes with All-Ireland build-up for Kerry’s attention
Rose of Tralee 2019: ‘My escort’s name is Kate – and she is HOT’
What Roses will least likely say, and everything else you need to know about the festival
Rose of Tralee 2018: Waterford Rose takes the crown
Student and part-time model Kirsten Mate Maher (21) wins the competition
Rose of Tralee: Pickup-style questions, job-interview answers
TV Review: The one radical moment in Monday night’s broadcast turns out to be a glitch
Patrick Freyne picks the best TV shows on the way for Autumn
Alison Spittle’s new show; David Simon in NYC; and a doc on the most famous Irish person ever: Shergar
New Rose of Tralee : ‘Lovely girls contest’ comments are unfair
Jennifer Byrne defends competition saying fellow Roses are very modern women
‘Absolutely in shock’: Offaly’s Jennifer Byrne crowned Rose of Tralee
Junior doctor expresses the hope that she will do the participants all proud
That time of year again as the Roses are in bloom in Tralee
Dáithí Ó Sé to host his eighth contest, but 65 hopefuls will be cut to 32 before TV coverage
From Bosco to TK to farmer’s tan: the true touchstones of Irish culture
Never mind Beckett or Joyce or Sinéad O’Connor or Love/Hate, these are the things that truly make us Irish
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